US Economy Barely Advanced at End of 2015

The U.S. said Friday that its economy, the world's largest, barely advanced in the last three months of 2015. The Commerce Department said the anemic growth - just seven-tenths of a percent - reflected weaker consumer spending, investment cutbacks by businesses and slowing exports. The U.S. report, the first of three estimates of the country's economic growth for the October-to-December period, comes amid slowing economic advances throughout the world and stock market turmoil...

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